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Warning: EpicScale "Cryptocurrency Miner" silently installed with latest uTorrent.

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Many users of the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent are complaining about it silently installing a cryptocurrency miner with a recent update "version 3.4.2 build 38913".

EpicScale is a bitcoin miner that also purports to use your "unused processing power to change the world". It's easily noticeable by the increased CPU load when the computer is idle.


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The file date/time on the EpicScale files matches the time of the uTorrent update, which confirms uTorrent as the source.

Several other users are reporting the same thing here: What is EpicScale.exe?


Kaspersky Antivirus test :
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not-a-virus:HEUR:RiskTool.Win32.BitCoinMiner.heur
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What do you think about this ??
 
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marhahajcs said:
if the user is stupid enough to click the accept offer button ,than he deserve some additional power usage.
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I don't understand the stupid enough remark, most users are not savvy users who understand or know what they click upon. it's simple rule of business, make money from what people don't fully understand, this is why your in business and so am I.

Knowledge is power, even though as much as we think we understand something most likely it's a small fish in the sea of information.
 
Why is this a bad thing? You are techy enough to mess with Torrents, why not know what you accept to? And besides that, I think if it is for a good cause, why not idle mine? ;)
 
This is a screenshot of a friend of mine, after reading this topic he uninstalled Utorrent and did an Anti-Malware scan.
( "EpicScale" detected also by Malwarebytes )

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End users who are just clicking through everything should install Unchecky, to avoid ending up with bundleware. I personally switched from uTorrent a while ago because of the bloat.
 
Djlatino said:
anurr said:
Who cares, no-one's dumb enough to use newer uTorrents anyways, full of useless bulk.

v2.2.1 FTW forever.
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Enjoy your vulnerable software.

If you haven't switched to something like qbittorrent, you're really missing out.
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If 2.2.1 would be vulnerable, no private torrents would use it over newer, explicitly banned versions.

Also don't know any site which would allow qtorrent.

Your claims are thus irrelevant.

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